Abstract
The NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information has developed two ocean acoustic archives for long-term stewardship, discovery and access to water-column sonar and passive acoustic data. These vast datasets are collected across NOAA, other government agencies, and academia for a wide range of scientific objectives. Through free and global access, users can discover, query, and analyze the data for new research and add value to the data by using it beyond its original collection purpose. NCEI has partnered with Google and Amazon Web Services to facilitate cloud-based access to 200 + TB of archived ocean acoustic data. Users can listen to the sound files from their browser, immediately download the desired data, and—most importantly—bring processing routines to large volumes of data from simple statistical analyses to artificial intelligence. The strength of the archives, the challenges faced by the impending tsunami of data, and how to tap into the archives for current and future acoustic research will be discussed.
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